I'm with Mariatta. On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 10:15 AM, Mariatta Wijaya <mariatta.wij...@gmail.com > wrote:
> Fun fact: The real Oktoberfest in München always starts mid of September >> and ends on the first weekend of October. This year it will end on >> October 3rd. Hurry up! :) > > > > Hmm.. Maybe the next core sprint can coincide with the real oktoberfest? ;) > > > This may sound grumpy to some, but I'm against gamification of open source >> and also against giving GitHub a special role. > > > I'm also against gamification, which I have expressed personally to > another core dev. > I do believe that the ability to contribute to open source is a privilege. > > Any open source activity is somehow credited to or associated with some >> commercial entity. What has changed in the last 7-10 years? > > > I don't know, I haven't been involved with open source for that long. > > I have a rather selfish motivation. I'd really like to see some of these > open issues in the DevGuide closed: > https://github.com/python/devguide/issues?q=is%3Aopen+ > is%3Aissue+label%3A%22help+wanted%22 > > During the core sprint I mentioned to another core dev that I'd like to > see someone write up the git worktree part (https://github.com/python/ > devguide/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3A%22help+wanted%22) since I > don't know how it works. > Seems like there are other core devs who knows how it works, but have not > find time/motivation to write up the docs. > > If during the month of October there plenty of eager contributors looking > for issues to work on, why not direct them to one of our issues? > I think it benefits all of us. > > We are not the one giving out t-shirts anyway. It does mean we will > receive more than usual incoming PRs. > I think this will happen anyway whether I create the hacktoberfest label > or not. > > I'm planning to apply the labes to the devguide issues that have the 'help > wanted' labels already (see above link) > and this core workflow issue which is supposed to be straightforward > https://github.com/python/core-workflow/issues/164 > > > Mariatta Wijaya > > > Mariatta Wijaya > > On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 10:04 AM, Antoine Pitrou <anto...@python.org> > wrote: > >> >> Le 28/09/2017 à 18:58, Stefan Krah a écrit : >> > On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 09:21:04AM -0700, Mariatta Wijaya wrote: >> >> October is hacktoberfest (https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/) >> >> In the month of October, people can sign up and contribute to open >> source >> >> projects on GitHub. If they make 4 PRs during Hacktoberfest, they'll >> earn a >> >> limited edition T-Shirt. >> > >> > This may sound grumpy to some, but I'm against gamification of open >> source >> > and also against giving GitHub a special role. >> >> I don't like gamification, but the t-shirt thing sounds innocuous >> enough. I would be more worried if such a scheme became permanent. >> Also I'm not even sure we can prevent this one for CPython PRs: >> >> """To get a shirt, you must make four pull requests between October 1–31 >> in any timezone. Pull requests can be to *any public repo on GitHub, not >> just the ones we’ve highlighted*.""" (emphasis added) >> >> Regards >> >> Antoine. >> _______________________________________________ >> python-committers mailing list >> python-committers@python.org >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers >> Code of Conduct: https://www.python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >> > > > _______________________________________________ > python-committers mailing list > python-committers@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers > Code of Conduct: https://www.python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > > -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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